On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Tomas Vobruba wrote:
|i'm newbie with configuration of modem on my linux machine and I have some
|problems with it.
|After installing Slackware 7.0 i try to launch pppd (with parameter
|/etc/ttyS0)
|but I got an error message :
|
|blava:~# pppd /dev/ttyS0
|pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I
|pppd: couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP
|address.
It's a misleading message. It means that you have a default route already
set, perhaps to a LAN to which your box is attached. You can add the pppd
noauth option to get rid of the message, but it would be best to remove
that default route. This is because pppd won't replace an existing default
route through the PPP interface even with the defaultroute option, and
without it you will get no Internet access via the PPP connection.
It's very likely that a network specific route to the LAN is already
configured and you don't need the default route anyway - unless you're
supplying Internet access to a dial-in. In that case you wouldn't want to
set a default route through the PPP interface.
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